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Pedro Cano, one of the leading figures of contemporary painting at European level, Mazarrón visited this morning with the goal to begin outlining an exhibition project that landed in the town from the hands of the foundation that bears his name.
Cano has been received by the Mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, and the Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Education, Maria Celeste Soria.
Together they have made a visit to the town hall, a place that will host the said project.
The painter has fallen in love with blanqueño the singular beauty of the building, especially in the Plenary Hall and City Hall.
The visit, which also attended by the coordinator of the "Fundación Pedro Cano", Maria Gonzalez, the director of the Universidad Popular de Mazarrón, Jose Maria Lopez, the municipal archivist, Magdalena Campillo, and the commissioner of the town hall Juan Sanchez, has continued for the Sanctuary of La Purisima, San Andrés church and the castle of Vélez.
The shrine of the Virgin in the Sanctuary, and the coffered ceiling of that church also fascinated the artist.
Cano has said he was "warmly welcomed" in Mazarron where his childhood as a result gave the expressions of artists that will be part of the exhibition project that has already been launched.
For his part, thanked the painter Campillo its "deference to our land" and said he was "very excited about this project", which for now can not be given more data, since "will be a major boost for the culture and tourism in the municipality. "
Born in Pedro Cano Blanca (Murcia) on August 10, 1944.
Began its journey in a self-made oil paintings with only his first eleven years in his hometown.
At nineteen he moved to Madrid and later, in 1965, he entered the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, which have as teachers and Juan Antonio Lopez Garcia Barjola, among others.
Four years later he won a scholarship of landscape painting from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome for three years, after which he moved to Anguilla, a small town outside Rome where the living is usually when in Italy.
During the 80 resident for five years in New York, but has never failed to return often to his village in the province of Murcia.
Despite his visits to these two cities and in New York and his extensive travels to places as diverse as Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, Cano always carries his identity and his personal vision of human and artistic world.
Although his work is linked to a lyrical figuration, it is difficult to pigeonhole the work of Cano, since it combines his love of classical culture and heritage mater abstract painting which, together, come together in a strong and singular expressiveness .
In his numerous awards and recognitions, such as the Gold Medal at the Biennial of Painting and Sculpture in Florence in 1971 and a year later the Gold Medal for Graphic Arts Biennale in Florence, with his appointment in 2001 as an academic Number of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Santa Maria de la Arrixaca of Murcia and the task of Isabel the Catholic, joined the inauguration of the artist as Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Murcia in 2005.
With the artist Pedro Cano Murcia painting reaches its highest levels of quality and international recognition.
This is demonstrated by his regular exhibitions in numerous public and private spaces in Europe and America.
The artist has work in the Vatican Museum, the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence and at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
Written by Pedro Cano likes of Alfonso Pérez Sánchez, Maurizio Calvesi, Predag ​​Matvejevich, Juan Manuel Bonet and Lorenza Trucchi.
With the recent opening in White the foundation that bears his name, he fulfills his dream of showing much of his work in his hometown.
Over a thousand works including oils, watercolors and travel books donated, some of whom will travel soon to Mazarrón.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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